I have also had LOTS of issues with MSI AB preventing games launching, DOTA 2 had issues for me before there was an MSI AB update.
Also had a problem with Dead Island and MSI AB, this was on my PC and my sons at the same time about 2 weeks ago, the game would not stay on, would launch and then 2 seconds later it would CTD evey time until MSI AB was turned off

I currently have no issues with MSI AB but it certainly brings issue on a regular basis for me.

What's wrong with CCC? I use it to control the fan. It works decently well. It does load extremely slowly though.....

There's nothing wrong with CCC. Wouldn't I have to enable it everytime I play a game? I don't want it to idle at lets say 60% when I'm not gaming or anything like that. I just want something that works without enabling anything manually. I want to set it at 60% while gaming and it should automatically drop to 20% in idle without doing it manually then I will be satisfied.

I stopped using it. With my card needing all these tweaks to OC it harder then ccc and Msi ab cause random problems and since in am under water I stopped using it. More hassle then it's worth. Just use Ccc for OC and that's it.